Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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